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AND SEVENTH-CENTURY ELEPHANT IVORY FINDS from the CARPATHIAN© 2020 BASIN the Authors 39 DOI: 10.1556/0208.2020.00002 Archaeologiai Értesítő 145 (2020) 39–68 SIXTH- AND SEVENTH-CENTURY ELEPHANT IVORY FINDS FROM THE CARPATHIAN© 2020 BASIN The Authors 39 DOI: 10.1556/0208.2020.00002 SIXTH- AND SEVENTH-CENTURY ELEPHANT IVORY FINDS FROM THE CARPATHIAN BASIN The Sources, Circulation and Value of Ivory in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages ÁDÁM BOLLÓK* – ISTVÁN KONCZ** Jelen tanulmány célja az elefántcsont mint nyersanyag lehetséges forrásaira és értékére vonatkozó, a római és a késő ókori mediterrán világból származó adatok áttekintése, információkat nyerve ezáltal a 6–7. századi Kárpát-medence régészeti hagyatékából előkerült elefántcsonttárgyak erede- tére, elérhetőségére és árára vonatkozólag. A hellenisztikus kortól a kora középkorig terjedő idő- szakban a Földközi-tenger vidéki elefántcsont-kereskedelem dinamikáját megvilágító írott és tárgyi források áttekintése nyomán úgy tűnik, hogy a 6–7. századi Közép-Duna-vidéki elefántcsonttár- gyak nyersanyaga a Földközi-tenger medencéjén keresztül Afrikából, ezen belül is talán a konti- nens keleti feléről érkezett. Megállapítható emellett, hogy a mediterrán világ keleti és középső régióiban készült, a Kárpát-medencébe elkerült elefántcsonttárgyak nem tekinthetők kiemelkedően drága luxusjavaknak, többségük viszonylag szerény áron megvásárolható volt. Kulcsszavak: elefántcsont, távolsági kereskedelem, reprezentáció, vörös-tengeri kereskedelem, római indiai-óceáni kereskedelem, késő ókor, Kárpát-medence, langobárd kor, avar kor The present paper seeks to examine the available data on the possible sources and monetary value of elephant ivory, both as raw material and finished products, in the Roman to late antique Mediterranean world in order to gain a better understanding of the wider context of elephant ivory artefacts dating from the sixth and seventh centuries discovered in the Carpathian Basin. After reviewing the written and material evidence on the dynamics of the Mediterranean elephant ivory trade from the Hellenistic period until the Early Middle Ages, our main conclusion is that the raw material of the sixth- to seventh-century ivory objects of the Middle Danube Region in in all prob- ability originated from Africa, possibly from the continent’s eastern parts, and arrived to this area through the Mediterranean. It is further argued that the few artefacts manufactured of elephant ivory in the eastern and central regions of the Mediterranean that reached the Carpathian Basin cannot be regarded as extremely expensive luxury goods – in fact, their majority would have been quite affordable to customers of more modest means. Keywords: elephant ivory, long-distance trade, social display, Red Sea trade, Roman Indian Ocean trade, Late Antiquity, Carpathian Basin, Langobard period, Avar period 1. Introduction In a previous study, currently awaiting publica- * Ádám Bollók: ELKH – Research Centre for the Humanities – tion, we covered the chronology and geographic Archae ological Institute; 1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán u. 4.; distribution as well as the cultural connections of e-mail: [email protected] the sixth–seventh-century ivories from the ** István Koncz: ELTE – Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of 1 Archaeological Sciences; 1088 Budapest, Múzeum körút 4/B; Carpathian Basin, and sought to find an expla- e-mail: [email protected] nation for why the currently known pieces show a concentration in the middle third of the sixth 1 For the sake of simplicity, throughout this paper “ivory” will denote “elephant ivory”. For the different sorts of ivories, see Manuscript accepted: April 23, 2020. Manuscript receiced: the brief introductory discussion in KONCZ–BOLLÓK in press. June 27, 2020. Unless otherwise indicated, all dates are AD. Unauthenticated | Downloaded 09/25/21 11:50 PM UTC 40 ÁDÁM BOLLÓK – ISTVÁN KONCZ century and in the western half of the Carpathian ivory carvings reaching the Carpathian Basin Basin, then under Langobard rule, while ivory that have been preserved in the sixth–sev- objects are virtually absent from Gepidic- and enth-century material record as well as the sourc- Avar-period burials, even though both the histor- ing of their raw material, albeit the latter with ical sources and the archaeological record clearly certain constraints. The former is instructive be- attest to the quite intense Mediterranean contacts cause it is still one of the commonplaces of East- of these two peoples.2 This scarcity is particularly Central European archaeological studies that striking in the case of the Avars, given that the ivory was a scarce and expensive luxury item textual and material record leaves no doubt that available to, and affordable for, few in Late the military campaigns against Byzantium, the Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Even diplomatic relations, and the “shopping sprees”3 though Anthony Cutler strove to dispel this to the Roman lands would have provided ample widely-held premise already in the 1980s, citing opportunity for acquiring a wide range of the evidence that contrary to all expectations, the Byzantine goods, ivory carvings among them. As price of ivory in the fourth–sixth centuries was part of our inquiry, we sought to explore several surprisingly low,5 his arguments made little in- potential explanations in detail, among others road into, and had but limited impact on, early that (1) ivory was a highly prized commodity medieval archaeological studies in Central and was therefore extremely expensive, and (2) Europe.6 The available evidence has increased the fact that raw ivory and various objects carved during the past three decades and has fully con- from it became virtually unavailable at the time firmed Cutler’s assertions. Earlier assumptions the Avars arrived to and settled in the Carpathian about the changes in the price and value of ivory, Basin, meaning that ivory carvings either did not on its origins and sources as well as on the dy- reach this region or no more than a few pieces namics of its trade can now be enriched with new did. We first examined the potential sources of data and insights, in part owing to the growth of ivory during the centuries of Late Antiquity, as the material record and in part to the increasing well as at what price and for how long ivory prominence of archaeometric analyses. It seems was available to the population of the Eastern to us that in the light of the evidence presented Roman Empire and Italy, the most probable here, both the value of the ivories known from source of the ivory articles known from the the sixth–seventh-century archaeological record Carpathian Basin. Our ultimate conclusion was of the Carpathian Basin and the sources of the that the low number of ivories from the early me- objects’ raw material can be determined with a dieval Carpathian Basin can be attributed to cul- fair degree of confidence. tural preferences rather than to the price of this raw material or its availability. Knowing that ivory as a raw material was less suited to recy- 2. The sources and price of ivory cling and to wealth accumulation than precious in the Roman-period and late antique metals, and that a part of the ivory carvings pro- Mediterranean duced in the Mediterranean world – such as the well-known diptychs – could not be readily in- While the first truly exotic creatures which on corporated into the material culture of Barbarian the testimony of the written sources were dis- societies, the late antique and early medieval ivo- played in the Circus maximus of Rome were the ries were generally not particularly prized com- war elephants captured from Pyrrhus, ruler of modities in Barbarian societies.4 Epirus, in 275 BC,7 these enormous beasts re- The evidence presented here about the ivory mained a curiosity in the eyes of the Urbs’ popu- trade and the prices of the late antique and early lation, despite their more or less regular appear- medieval Mediterranean world is useful not only ance throughout the Republican and Imperial because it virtually precludes the possibility that period. Their size, their capture, and the costs of the Avar-period population or the population of their transportation,8 as well as the many diffi- the Langobardic and Gepidic polities of the Carpathian Basin would have had no access to 5 CUTLER 1985a; CUTLER 1987. larger amounts of ivories simply for chronologi- 6 One welcome exception is Jörg Drauschke’s study on the cal reasons. The data presented in the following Merovingian ivories from southern Germany, in which he also allow a rough assessment of the value of the discusses their value based on Cutler’s writings: DRAUSCHKE 2011b, 123–124. 2 KONCZ–BOLLÓK in press. 7 JENNISON 1937, 44. 3 Cf. BOLLÓK 2019. 8 For the organisation of how these animals were supplied, cf. 4 KONCZ–BOLLÓK in press. MACKINNON 2006. Unauthenticated | Downloaded 09/25/21 11:50 PM UTC SIXTH- AND SEVENTH-CENTURY ELEPHANT IVORY FINDS FROM THE CARPATHIAN BASIN 41 culties in taming and breeding them in captivity 2.1. The route of raw ivory to the Hellenistic and all bolstered the perception in the Roman world Roman Mediterranean markets 9 that they were creatures solely befitting rulers. 2.1.1. North-eastern Africa and western India However, this was not the case regarding their tusks, designated as elephant ivory.10 Access to On the testimony of the surviving written sourc- raw ivory within the confines of the Roman es, the Romans first encountered elephants in Empire – which first incorporated north-western Italy in the third century BC when they clashed Africa, then the greater part of the Mediterranean with the Epiran army.13 While it seems likely that Basin and finally its entirety – was ensured for the creatures in questions had been war ele- the greater portion of the wealthier population phants from India,14 a precise species identifica- by the first century AD. The symbolic start of tion is near-impossible because the written sourc- this process can be pinpointed to Lucius es tend to resort to a widespread literary topos Cornelius Scipio’s triumphal procession after his when contrasting Indian and African elephants,15 victory over the army of the Seleucid ruler without really bothering to make genuine dis- Antiochus III (r.
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